Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:04:47 +0100 From: Tom Jones <thj@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Updating reboot's default Message-ID: <YrHP3ah5PSdxO6Po@spacemonster> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfq0bkw4RGy=HoQhx0VHck=JQzoiONWifMY3n37Mpgz17w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfq0bkw4RGy=HoQhx0VHck=JQzoiONWifMY3n37Mpgz17w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 08:01:58AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > 15 or 20 years ago, we talked about changing the default for reboot from > 'right now' to being safe shutdown. There were arguments made against it > due to tiny appliances and such. > > Time has past, and this oddity has persisted. It's time to revisit that > decision. > > I'd propose that we keep 'fastboot' and 'fasthalt' having the immediate > behavior. However, the 'reboot' command will switch from '-q' behavior to > '-r' behavior. > > I'll update the man page, etc to reflect these new defaults. Most of the > systems I've been on in the last 10-15 years have had some flavor of 'alias > reboot reboot -r' in their login scripts and/or made shell scripts that did > this. This will match what everybody else is doing, and will likely result > in less astonishment rather than more, even though it changes a > long-standing default behavior. > > Comments? +1 I was perplex for a long time why reboot did this and especially when I was using it to boot test kernels. The current behaviour is not what I or I think most people expect. - Tom
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